very high bandwidth, low latency manner?

[Craig Tierney]

On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 01:40:08AM -0400, Patrick Geoffray wrote:
> Steffen Persvold wrote:
> 
> >>I talked to a guy at SC2002 from Quadrics and he said
> >>that list pricing on a Quadrics network was about $3500
> >>per node when you are in the 100s of nodes and up.
> >>The price includes the cards, cables, switches,
> >>etc.  This doesn't include any sort of discount that you
> >>might get.  Myrinet is about $2000 for an equivelent
> >>network at list price.   Dolphin/SCI falls around $2245 list
> >>per node (if the system is > 144 nodes and you have to get
> >>the 3d card).
>  >
> > This is list prices for the cards only, right ? 
> 
> Not for Myrinet. Actually $2000 per node is the total cost 
> (NIC/cable/port/software) for the high-end products (with L9/200 MHz), 
> should be more like $1500 for low-end ones. Craig is spoiled, only buys 
> the top stuff :-)

Sorry Patrick.  The problem with trying to state numbers is that
if you get it wrong, then the real knowledgeable ones can point it out.

I figure out list cost on a 256 node system at about $2000 before for
basic hardware.  I as wrong.  I reworked it and it is $1500 for
256 (and would be the same for 512 and 1024).

I thought I had decent information.  What I was trying to provide was
info on the three options.  The SCI price is per node (cards, cables,
software).  It is $2245 list.  This would be appropriate for systems over
144 nodes.

The Quadrics number I got from the rep might have been the sales number,
and not a perfect comparsion to all the required hardware for a system of
a few hundred nodes.

Craig